The Big Freeze

Route taken and entries by Real Traveler the Drifter Diaries

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   Big Wednesday

   Los Angeles, United States | Apr 17 '07 | Reviews: 0

   Wednesday April 18th at 5.45pm was goodbye New Zealand time.

   Wednesday April 18th at 9.30am was hello Los Angeles time.

   And Wednesday A... Continue reading »

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   Inside the Outside

   Anchorage, United States | Apr 18 '07 | Reviews: 0

   Alaskans are a different breed of American.

   I witnessed this through two prime examples...

   When i got on that fated, fat plane from Auc... Continue reading »

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   Welcome to Coldness

   Anchorage, United States | Apr 18 '07 | Reviews: 0

   That Argentinian back in the New Zealand hostel asked me a very important question once:

   "Alaska?" said he. "Why the fuck are you going to Al... Continue reading »

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   The Soul Train

   Fairbanks, United States | Apr 20 '07 | Reviews: 0

   Alaska isn't called the last frontier for nothing buddy.
   

   To prove it I hopped on the train from Anchorage to Fairbanks, a grizzled by-... Continue reading »

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   Golden teeth. Spanish Dentist. Wolf Apprentice.

   Whitehorse, Canada | Apr 21 '07 | Reviews: 0

    Damnit i was hungry.

   But the historic boom-town city of Fairbanks was a thin and wheezing old man rocking slowly backwards an... Continue reading »

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   The Hitchikers Guide

   Skagway, United States | Apr 22 '07 | Reviews: 0

   Put yourself in my stinking battered shoes for two moments will you?

   You're in the snowy wastelands of North Canada. You have made it he... Continue reading »

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   Silent Hill

   Juneau, United States | Apr 23 '07 | Reviews: 0

   I wake up on the ferry at one in the morning. Dreams melt.

   My bed is a disgustingly brightly lit lounge with nasty brown seats that seek to j... Continue reading »

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   Fun on a Ferry

   Wrangell, United States | Apr 24 '07 | Reviews: 0

   As aforementioned- my humble abode for the week is the jeriatrically coloured panaorma of the ferry's "chill out lounge" where everything... Continue reading »

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   Man Over-Bored

   Ketchikan, United States | Apr 25 '07 | Reviews: 0

   The rain persisted to piss-off the paying passengers. I was one of them.

   The laws of human conversation wear a little thin after two day... Continue reading »

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    The BC Life

    Vancouver, Canada | Apr 28 '07 | Reviews: 0

    Time passed, fish swam, the ferry cruised, I slept and grew a beard that an Alaskan would have been proud of.

      Then I arrived.  ... Continue reading »